Education
A graduate of Oriel College, Oxford, where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in 1979 under the supervision of Peter Bryant and Donald Broadbent, he spent the rest of his early career at the University of York where he was professor from 1992–2011.
Career
He holds the Chair of Psychology at University College London. He is a Senior Editor of Psychological Science, the flagship journal of the Association for Psychological Science. He was awarded the British Psychological Society"s Spearman Medal in 1985.
Since 2011, he has been a Professor of psychology at University College London.